What happened on YOUR birth date.

OCTOBER 31


Events
445 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).
475 - Romulus Augustus was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1517 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1822 - Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempted to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
1861 - American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
1863 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864 - Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1912 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.
1912 - Dominican Republic becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1922 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
1923 - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins.
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.
1938 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain ends - The United Kingdom prevents Germany from invading Great Britain.
1941 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
1941 - World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican"[1]
1954 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1961 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
1968 - Vietnam War October surprise:Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).
1986 - The 5th congress of the Communist Party of Sweden is inaugurated. During the course of the congress the party name is changed to the Solidarity Party and the party ceases to be a communist party.
1994 - An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing all 68 on board.
1996 - A Brazilian TAM Fokker F100 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
1996 - Jean Chrétien becomes UN special envoy to the African Great Lakes.
1997 - 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.
1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
1999 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
2000 - A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and 4 crew members
2000 - A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
2000 - The last Multics machine was shut down.
2002 - A federal grand jury in Houston formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 - A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
2003 - Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.
2004 - Passenger airline service ends at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, Canada.
2005 - President George W. Bush nominates Appeals court judge Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Births
1291 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1538 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)
1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1620 - John Evelyn, English diarist (d. 1706)
1622 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
1692 - Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1711 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
1737 - James Lovell (delegate), American educator (d. 1789)
1795 - John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
1815 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1831 - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1875 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (d. 1954)
1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader (d. 1975)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
1895 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)
1896 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
1912 - Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1914 - Joe Carcione (a.k.a. "The Green Grocer"), American consumer advocate (d. 1988)
1917 - Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
1918 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist
1920 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist
1920 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1925 - John Anthony Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1926 - Jimmy Saville, English entertainer
1927 - Lee Grant, American actress
1928 - Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
1929 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
1930 - Michael Collins, astronaut
1931 - Dan Rather, American television journalist
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1937 - Tom Paxton, American singer
1939 - Ron Rifkin, American actor
1939 - Tom O'Connor, British comedian
1943 - Paul Frampton, English physicist
1944 - Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist
1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1946 - Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1947 - Deidre Hall, American actress
1947 - Frank Shorter, American runner
1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
1950 - Jane Pauley, American news anchor
1953 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
1955 - Mark Roesler, American businessman and lawyer, founder and head of CMG Worldwide
1958 - Jeannie Longo, French cyclist
1959 - Neal Stephenson, American author
1960 - Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rico's delegate to Congress
1960 - Mike Gallego, baseball player
1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1961 - Alonzo Babers, American runner
1961 - Kate Campbell, American musician
1963 - Dunga, Brazilian footballer
1963 - Fred McGriff, baseball player
1963 - Rob Schneider, American actor
1963 - Johnny Marr, guitarist/songwriter (The Smiths)
1964 - Marco van Basten, Dutch football player
1964 - Marty Wright, American professional wrestler
1965 - Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1966 - Adam Horovitz, American singer (Beastie Boys)
1968 - Antonio Davis, American basketball player
1968 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper
1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 - Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1971 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004)
1971 - Ian Walker, English footballer
1972 - Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer
1974 - Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1976 - Piper Perabo, American actress
1977 - Séverine Ferrer, French singer
1980 - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor
1981 - Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
1981 - Frank Iero, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
1986 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress



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Deaths
1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1214 - Leonora of England, wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896)
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 - Gene Anderson, Professional wrestler
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (drug overdose) (b. 1970)
1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki (founder and guitarrist of Raphael), Japanese musician (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2003 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Indian guru (b. 1923)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)



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Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints - October 31 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Antoninus
St. Arnulf
St. Bega
St. Notburga
St. Quentin
St Urban
St. Wolfgang
Also see October 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Protestant Church - Reformation Day: Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg church on this day in 1517
October 31st is Halloween; also see Samhain (an approximate date)
Cornwall - Allantide
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day
Paganism and Celts - Samhain
October 31st is Nevada Day
 
December 17 is the 351st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 14 days remaining

why does that last part sound so sinister...

Can't be bothered picking them out, but there were tons of battles, and no one that interesting died or was born.

Apart from me, I'm very interesting
 
February 23 :


Events

* 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
* 1660 - Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
* 1778 - American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
* 1820 - Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
* 1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
* 1847 - Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico, American troops defeat Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* 1854 - The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
* 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1870 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
* 1874 - Walter Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike", now more commonly called lawn tennis.
* 1883 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
* 1887 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
* 1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.
* 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
* 1900 - In South Africa the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
* 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
* 1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
* 1905 - Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
* 1909 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
* 1917 - first demonstrations in Petrograd, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
* 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
* 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
* 1934 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
* 1940 - World War II: Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island.
* 1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
* 1945 - World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
* 1945 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
* 1945 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
* 1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
* 1947 - International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded.
* 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* 1955 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
* 1955 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a solar flare.
* 1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
* 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
* 1966 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.
* 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
* 1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
* 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
* 1981 - 23-F, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
* 1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
* 1983 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
* 1987 - A supernova is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (see Supernova 1987a).
* 1991 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.
* 1991 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
* 1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
* 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.
* 1996 - William Bonin, first man to be executed by lethal injection in the state of california
* 1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
* 1998 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
* 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
* 1999 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
* 1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
* 2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.


Births

* 1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)

* 1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress

* 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor

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* 1951 - Patricia Richardson, American actress
* 1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
* 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine

* 1955 - Howard Jones, British pop singer


* 1964 - Dana Scully, fictional character on the tv-show The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson
* 1965 - Kristin Davis, American actress
* 1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer

* 1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
* 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress


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Deaths

* 1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English poltician (executed) (bc. 1515)

* 1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
* 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
* 1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
* 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
* 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)

* 1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)

* 1965 - Stan Laurel, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)

*1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
* 1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)
* 1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)
* 2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
* 2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
* 2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
* 2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
* 2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
* 2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
* 2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
* 2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
* 2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
 
Oct. 23rd:

Events-



I was born.
 
May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). There are 236 days remaining.

Events

328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (Timurid monarch) assassinated.
1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World".
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1874 - The first horse-drawn omnibus made its début in the city of Mumbai, plying on two routes.
1887 - Buffalo Bill Richardot's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1914 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
1915 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-?mig?y celebrated their capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 - World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish Population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.
1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
1945 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway.
1945 - World War II: Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops).
1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
1949 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1950 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes his book on Dianetics, entitled "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
1955 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
1956 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves sale of the birth control pill.
1965 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz gave his first public recital since 1953, at Carnegie Hall.
1970 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protestors peacefully demonstrate behind a barricaded White House.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.
1980 - In Florida, Liberian freighter SS Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.
1987 - A Polish LOT Ilyushin I? 62M "Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko" (SP-LBG). crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
1992 - At 5:18 a.m. ADT The Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia experiences a methane explosion killing all 26 miners who were working.
1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 - The Canadian national team wins the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II.
2006 - 2 miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb were freed after 14 days trapped underground in a goldmine at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
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Births

1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1741 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)
1860 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1874 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
1882 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
1882 - Henry J. Kaiser, American ship-builder (d. 1967)
1883 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)
1895 - Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1907 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1912 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
1912 - Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)
1914 - Hank Snow, Canadian-born musician (d. 1999)
1918 - Mike Wallace, American journalist
1918 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
1920 - Richard Adams, English author
1920 - William Tenn, American author
1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
1927 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1928 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (d. 1982)
1928 - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
1930 - Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
1934 - Alan Bennett, British author
1936 - Albert Finney, British actor
1936 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
1937 - José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1939 - Ralph Boston, American athlete
1939 - Ion ?iriac, Romanian tennis player and businessman
1940 - James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
1942 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
1944 - Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
1946 - Candice Bergen, American actress
1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1960 - Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Baseball Player
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
1963 - Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
1965 - Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player
1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete
1969 - Amber, Dutch musician
1970 - Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1972 - Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
1972 - Daniela Siliva?, Romanian gymnast
1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1976 - Tamia, Canadian R&B singer
1977 - Maggie Dixon, Women's college basketball coach (d. 2006)
1978 - Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine football player
1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Andrew W.K., American Musician
1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress
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Deaths

1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
1657 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
1707 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(b. 1663)
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1789 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
1805 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
1903 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - George Co?buc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
1931 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
1949 - Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
1957 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1970 - Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
1978 - Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914)
1989 - Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2004 - Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
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Holidays and observances

Russia and some other parts of the former Soviet Union – Victory Day as the end of the "Great Patriotic War".
European Union – Europe day, commemorating the "Schuman declaration".
Jersey, Guernsey – Liberation Day (commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II).
Roman Empire – Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae).
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I'm not putting in every thing, just the good stuff.

July 16th

Events
622 - The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.

1783 - Grants of land in Canada to American United Empire Loyalists are announced.

1880 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.

1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.

1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.

1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1951 - King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.

2005 - The sixth book in the popular Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince by JK Rowling is released to record sales of 287,564 books per hour in its first 24 hours, making it the fastest selling book in history.

Births
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland
1889 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian

Deaths
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1918 - Czar Nicholas the Second
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American wrestler (b. 1929)
 
My wifes B-day is 9/11/69, Can you guess what happend on her birthday five years ago? :wow: :(
 
Superman said:
My wifes B-day is 9/11/69, Can you guess what happend on her birthday five years ago? :wow: :(
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she turned 32... poor thing:csad:
 
JANUARY 14TH

 
Births

 
Deaths

 
SpideyInATree's Date Of Birth: December 21, 1980

Births

1118 - Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1811 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
1815 - Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander poet (d. 1898)
1850 - Zdeněk Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936)
1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942)
1876 - Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1878 - Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 - Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Russian Communist Party from 1928 to 1953 (d. 1953)
1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1892 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
1892 - Rebecca West, American writer (d. 1983)
1896 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
1911 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (d. 1947)
1914 - Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1918 - Donald Regan, White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2003)
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria
1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1921 - Alicia Alonso (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez Hoya), Cuban ballerina
1922 - Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005)
1926 - Joe Paterno, American Football coach
1935 - John G. Avildsen, American film director and editor
1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist and businessman (d. 2003)
1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer
1942 - Carla Thomas, American singer
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist
1947 - Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American producer
1952 - Joaquín Andújar, Baseball player
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player
1957 - Ray Romano, American comedian and actor
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter, Olympic gold medalist and 100 m & 200 m world record holder (d. 1998)
1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager
1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedienne
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor
1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
1969 - Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer
1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician, singer and songwriter
1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel)
1972 - Latroy Hawkins, professional baseball player
1972 - Dustin Hermanson, baseball player
1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
1973 - Mike Alstott, American football player
1974 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre)
1977 - Jim Carson, American music producer and disc jockey
1978 - Mike Vitar, American actor
1980 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (d. 2005)
1981 - Dima Bilan, Russian singer
1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian Footballer
1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1984 - Darren Potter, Irish footballer
1985 - James Stewart Jr., professional motocross racer
1987 - Edward Speleers, Brtish Actor

Deaths

1295 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)
1308 - Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244)
1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)
1504 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1579 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1597 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521)
1807 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
1824 - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
1873 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1889 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
1937 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885)
1957 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884)
1959 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restauranteur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
1974 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
1988 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
1992 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1924)
1992 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1903)
2001 - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1931)
2004 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)

Events

69 - Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome within a year.
1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1872 - Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
1913 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1917 - Meiji Dairies, a Japanese dairy industry company, is founded.
1937 - The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.
1958 - French presidential election, 1958: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France as his Union des Démocrates pour la République party gain 78.5% of the vote.
1962 - Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1968 - Project Apollo: Apollo 8, crewed by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1979 - Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Dr S C Mundawarara.
1987 - The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing 1,565.
1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, killing 270.
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives which ETA intend to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2012 - The Maya Calendar prophecies the end of the world or rebirth, which coincides with the Sun aligning with the center of the Milky Way, and the end of a Earth axis rotation.

Man, this is nuts. I share the same birthday as Samuel L. Jackson. Heh. And Andy Dick, but he sucks...heh....and Ray Romano. Damn. I share the same birthday with a lot of famous people, but I'm probably the only one who deserves to have been birthed on this day. :oldrazz:

And I find it rather odd, yet morbid, that in 2012 according the the Mayans that on my birthday, in 2012 mind you, that the world is supposed to end. :wow:
 
Events

* 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio wherein the prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV, is killed battling the encroaching Normans.
* 1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
* 1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.
* 1613 - Mikhail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
* 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau - Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
* 1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
* 1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
* 1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1]
* 1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
* 1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
* 1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
* 1898 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
* 1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.
* 1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
* 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.
* 1942 - In Drakulici, Banja Luka, Croatian Nazis kill 2,300 Serbian civilians, among them 551 children.
* 1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy German forces launch a counteroffensive.
* 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
* 1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports.
* 1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States.
* 1967 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
* 1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
* 1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
* 1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1976 - Future Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins, setting a NHL record with 10 points in one game.
* 1977 - Soyuz programme: Soyuz 24 launched.
* 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
* 1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
* 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
* 1986 - Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
* 1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
* 1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
* 1991 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
* 1992 - The European Union is formed.
* 1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
* 1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
* 2000 - Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 of Government of Pakistan.
* 2003 - Pioneer program: Last unsuccessful contact attempt with Pioneer 10.

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Births

* 1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
* 1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
* 1693 - Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
* 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
* 1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
* 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
* 1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
* 1877 - Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician (d. 1947)
* 1883 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
* 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
* 1885 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (d. 1953)
* 1889 - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (d. 1961)
* 1898 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
* 1905 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1983)
* 1905 - Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
* 1906 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
* 1906 - Puyi, Emperor of China (d. 1967)
* 1907 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, famous Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
* 1908 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
* 1914 - Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
* 1915 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1918 - Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
* 1920 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
* 1922 - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
* 1926 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
* 1927 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
* 1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner
* 1932 - Gay Talese, American author
* 1932 - Al Worden, American astronaut
* 1933 - John Anderton, English footballer
* 1934 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
* 1934 - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta
* 1938 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
* 1943 - Gareth Hunt, English actor
* 1945 - Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
* 1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, English actor
* 1949 - Joe English, American drummer
* 1949 - Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
* 1951 - Benny Ayala, Baseball player
* 1953 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
* 1954 - Dieter Bohlen German composer
* 1955 - Rolf Benirschke, American football player
* 1955 - Mario Coutinho Brazilian physician
* 1955 - Miguel Ferrer, American actor
* 1956 - Emo Philips, American comedian
* 1957 - Carney Lansford, American baseball player
* 1960 - James Spader, American actor
* 1962 - Garth Brooks, American singer
* 1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
* 1962 - David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi)
* 1965 - Jason Gedrick, American actor
* 1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian and actor
* 1968 - Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-born hockey player
* 1968 - Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)
* 1972 - Alex Bassi, American Race Car Driver
* 1974- Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
* 1974 - J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
* 1975 - Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
* 1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
* 1978 - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian international footballer
* 1978 - Endy Chávez, Baseball player
* 1983 - Christian Klien, Austrian formula driver
* 1985 - Tina Majorino, American actress
* 1985 - Clara Bryant, American actress
* 1988 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer (W (Double You), Morning Musume, and MiniMoni)

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Deaths

* 1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
* 1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
* 1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
* 1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
* 1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
* 1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
* 1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
* 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
* 1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
* 1779 - William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
* 1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
* 1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
* 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
* 1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
* 1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
* 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
* 1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
* 1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
* 1898 - John Reily Knox, Founder of Beta Theta Pi (b. 1820)
* 1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient
* 1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
* 1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
* 1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
* 1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
* 1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
* 1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
* 1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
* 1968 - Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)
* 1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
* 1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
* 1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
* 1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
* 1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
* 1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)
* 1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
* 1992 - Buzz Sawyer, Wrestler
* 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
* 1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
* 1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)
* 1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
* 1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
* 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
* 1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
* 1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
* 2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican rapper (b. 1971)
* 2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
* 2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
* 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
* 2002 - Elisa Bridges, American model (b. 1973)
* 2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
* 2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
* 2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
* 2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)

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Holidays and observances

* Independence Day in Grenada (1974).
* Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
* Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005).

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Liturgical feasts

* Saints Paul Miki and his 25 companians (d. Nagasaki, 1597)
* Blessed Eugenia Smet (d.1871)
 
Events
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 - Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after Britain declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1941 - A curfew is imposed on US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war.
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network has its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1986 - A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1988 - "Tompkins Square Park Police Riot" in New York City. A riot erupted in Tompkins Square Park when police brutally attempted to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists were caught up in the police action that took place on the night of August 6th and the early morning of August 7th.
1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1993 - The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 - Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2000 - The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.
2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2002 - Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P."

Births
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 - Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1656 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1766 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1768 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1844 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1861 - Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady (d. 1948)
1868 - Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politican (d. 1952)
1880 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1881 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1889 - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1891 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)
1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d.2003)
1902 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 - Henry Iba, basketball coach (d. 1993)
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 - Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 - Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
1916 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
1916 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1918 - Norman Granz, American jazz musician and record producer (d. 2001)
1920 - Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
1922 - Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1923 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1928 - Herb Moford, baseball player (d. 2005)
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
1932 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1934 - Piers Anthony, English writer
1937 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
1938 - Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, President of Dagestan
1941 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 - Ray Culp, Baseball player
1943 - Jon Postel, computer scientist (d. 1998)
1945 - Andy Messersmith, baseball pitcher
1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean president
1946 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1948 - Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 - Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 - Dorian Harewood, American actor
1951 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
1957 - Jim McGreevey, American politician
1957 - Bob Horner, baseball player
1962 - Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
1963 - Kevin Mitnick, computer hacker
1964 - Moosie Drier, Actor and occasional director
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1965 - David Robinson, basketball Player
1967 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko)
1967 - Mike Greenberg, ESPN sportscaster
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1969 - Cactvs Chris, American/British musician
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born film director and actor
1971 - Merrin Dungey, American actress
1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer
1973 - Asia Carrera, American pornographic actress
1973 - Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1975 - Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1976 - Melissa George, Australian actress
1978 - Marisa Miller, American model
1978 - Billy Klippert, Canadian singer
1981 - Vitantonio Liuzzi, race car driver
1981 - Liliana Domínguez, Mexican supermodel
1982 - Adrianne Curry, American model
1982 - Ryan Sypek, American actor
1983 - Robin van Persie, Dutch football player
1984 - Marcos Airosa, Angolan footballer
1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, American Beauty Queen (murdered 1996)

Deaths
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1942 - Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer (b. 1875)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1945 - Richard Bong, America's all time Ace of Aces (b. 1920)
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, baseball player (b. 1903)
1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b. 1901)
1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)
1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1991 - Harry Reasoner, American reporter (b. 1923)
1993 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholicism - several feasts, including those of at least 3 saints:
Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
St. Joachim (father of St. Mary, according to Catholic tradition)
St. Justus
St. Pastor
St. Xystus/Sixtus II
Bolivia - Independence Day.
Jamaica - Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.
Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.


Nothing too important:p
 
EVENTS:
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1783 - The Continental Army is disbanded.
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1844 - Debut of Giuseppe Verdi's I due Foscari, at Teatro Argentina, Rome.
1848 - A greatly revised constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of the parliament and the ministers, is proclaimed. This constitution is still in effect today.
1868 - U.S. presidential election: Republican Ulysses S. Grant is elected to the first of his two terms in a victory over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
1883 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1896 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William McKinley is elected over Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1903 - With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia. US President Theodore Roosevelt had wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal, but was not willing to pay what Colombia asked.
1908 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate in his third and final nomination.
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.
1918 - Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia.
1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.
1936 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
1944 - World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
1954 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
1957 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit: a dog named Laika.
1964 - U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent US President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
1967 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins.
1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1970 - Salvador Allende is inaugurated as president of Chile.
1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury, on March 29, 1974 becoming the first space probe to reach that planet.
1975 - An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States's largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
1978 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000+ people.
1984 - Indira Gandhi was cremated at Shakti Sthal.
1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
1991 - Fifteen people are killed in the Barrios Altos massacre in Lima, Peru.
1992 - U.S. presidential election: Democratic challenger Bill Clinton defeats incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.
1998 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is elected Governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota
BIRTHS:
39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1718 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
1794 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
1816 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1856 - Jim McCormick, Baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (d. 1942)
1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (d. 1964)
1893 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (d. 1918)
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1901 - King Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1903 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
1909 - James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
1918 - Bob Feller, baseball player
1918 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1924 - Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1933 - Ken Berry, American actor
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
1933 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - John Barry, English composer
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion
1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1946 - Tom Savini, American actor, filmmaker, and makeup artist
1948 - Lulu, British actress and singer
1949 - Larry Holmes, American boxer
1950 - Joe Queenan, American writer, essayist, satirist and critic
1952 - Roseanne, American actress and comedienne
1953 - Kate Capshaw, American actress
1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian
1953 - Larry Herndon, baseball player
1954 - Adam Ant, English singer
1954 - Brigitte Lin, Taiwanese actress
1955 - Phil Simms, American football player
1956 - Kevin Murphy, American actor, author, and puppeteer
1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
1960 - Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
1962 - Marilyn, British musician
1963 - Ian Wright, English footballer
1967 - Steven Wilson, English musician and producer (Porcupine Tree)
1969 - Luciana Gimenez, Brazilian model and tv show hostess
1970 - Dawn Marie Psaltis, American professional wrestler
1971 - Dwight Yorke, Trinidadian footballer
1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1972 - Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer
1973 - Nemone, Athlete and broadcaster
1973 - Mick Thompson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
1977 - Aria Giovanni, American model
1979 - Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1981 - Jackie Gayda, American professional wrestler
1982 - Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1982 - Travis Richter, American guitarist/throat From First To Last
1986 - Jasmine Trias, American singer
1987 - Gemma Ward, Australian model

DEATHS:
no one important other than the co-creator of batman, bob kane
 
August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining.

* 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
* 378 - Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with ⅔ of his army.
* 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
* 1048 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.
* 1173 - Construction of the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
* 1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel
* 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
* 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
* 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
* 1936 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympic Games.
* 1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man, is dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan killing an estimated 70,000-90,000 people.
* 1965 - Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia.
* 1965 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
* 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.
* 1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles.
* 1969 - Popular attraction The Haunted Mansion opens in Disneyland.
* 1974 - As a direct result of the scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1983 - Peter Jennings hosts his first broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight as sole anchor.
* 1986 - The Headington Shark is erected in Oxford.
* 1986 - Knebworth Park, Stevenage, UK sees the final live performance of rock band Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury.
* 1987 - 9 people are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in Clifton Hill
* 1988 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history.
* 1988 - Baseball's all-day-game era officially came to an end when the Cubs beat the Mets 6-4 in Wrigley Field's first night game.
* 1989 - Kaifu Toshiki becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
* 1993 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
* 1993 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office.
* 1994 - Dilbert is drawn with his necktie down, signifying that he "lost his innocence" with Liz.
* 1995 - Netscape launches IPO.
* 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
* 1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
* 2000 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11
* 2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
* 2001 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.
* 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery successfully lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
* 2005 - A chemical plant explosion happened at the EQ Recovery Plant in Romulus, Michigan, forcing residence within 1 to 1⅓ mile radius from the plant to evacuate.
* 2006 - Mexican fishermen get rescued near the Marshall Islands after being lost nine months in the sea, eating raw fish and birds.

Births

* 1201 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
* 1593 - Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
* 1631 - John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
* 1648 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
* 1653 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
* 1674 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
* 1722 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
* 1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
* 1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
* 1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
* 1797 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
* 1805 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
* 1845 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
* 1871 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
* 1872 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
* 1874 - Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
* 1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
* 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
* 1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
* 1899 - P. L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)
* 1901 - Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
* 1902 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
* 1909 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (d. 1944)
* 1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1996)
* 1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author, the creator of the Moomins (d. 2001)
* 1914 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
* 1919 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
* 1919 - Ralph Houk, baseball player and manager
* 1920 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
* 1921 - J. James Exon, American politician, 36th Governor of Nebraska & United States Senator from Nebraska
* 1922 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
* 1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
* 1927 - Daniel Keyes, American author
* 1927 - Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
* 1928 - Bob Cousy, American basketball player
* 1931 - Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
* 1931 - Chuck Essegian, baseball player
* 1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
* 1936 - Julián Javier, baseball player
* 1938 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
* 1938 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
* 1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
* 1939 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
* 1940 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
* 1942 - Tommie Agee, Baseball player (d. 2001)
* 1943 - Ken Norton, American boxer
* 1944 - Sam Elliott, American actor
* 1945 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
* 1948 - Bill Campbell, baseball player
* 1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
* 1952 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
* 1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
* 1959 - Kurtis Blow, American rapper
* 1959 - Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
* 1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
* 1962 - Kevin Mack, American football player
* 1962 - Louis Lipps, American football player
* 1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
* 1964 - Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
* 1967 - Deion Sanders, American football player
* 1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
* 1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
* 1968 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
* 1969 - Troy Percival, baseball player
* 1970 - Rod Brind'Amour, hockey player
* 1970 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
* 1971 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
* 1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
* 1972 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
* 1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
* 1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
* 1974 - Mahesh Babu, Popular Indian film actor
* 1974 - Matt Morris, baseball player
* 1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
* 1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
* 1976 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
* 1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
* 1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
* 1985 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
* 1994 - Forrest Landis, American actor

Deaths

* 117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
* 378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
* 803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
* 1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
* 1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
* 1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
* 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
* 1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
* 1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
* 1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
* 1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
* 1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
* 1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
* 1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
* 1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
* 1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
* 1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
* 1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
* 1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
* 1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
* 1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951))
* 1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
* 1979 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
* 1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1927)
* 1995 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
* 1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
* 1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politican (b. 1910)
* 2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
* 2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
* 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
* 2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
* 2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
* 2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
* 2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
* 2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

* Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least five saints:
o St. Jean Vianney
o St. Edith Stein
o St. Romanus Ostiarius
o St. Fedlimid/Felimy
o St. Nathy (or David)
* Feast day of the great martyr Saint Panteleimon in Russian Orthodox Church
* Singapore: National Day
* National Women's Day in South Africa
 
August 5th

642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.
1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England.
1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1772 - First Partition of Poland begins.
1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
1861 - The United States Army abolished flogging.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.
1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1882 - Martial law is enacted in Japan.
1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
1901 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1944 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia. Most are killed but many escape and later commit suicide. Five Australian guards also die.
1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", becomes independent from France.
1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
1974 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1993 - Popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering is released. First trading card game to date.
1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory ("Homeland Thanksgiving Day") in Croatia.
1999 - Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
2001 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the Impossible Return.
2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
[edit]
Births
1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1397? - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1623 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1641 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
1662 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
1694 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
1813 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and language reformer (d. 1896)
1815 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901)
1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1866 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
1890 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)
1890 - Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner), Sculptor (d. 1977)
1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1901 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1906 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1999)
1906 - Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1911 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
1912 - Abbé Pierre, French catholic priest
1914 - David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)
1918 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
1918 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1934 - Wendell Berry, writer, farmer
1935 - John Saxon, American actor
1937 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1943 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (d. 2005)
1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
1946 - Ron Silliman, American poet
1947 - Rick Derringer, American musician
1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer
1947 - Bernie Carbo, baseball player
1951 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
1953 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (d. 2005)
1953 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer
1956 - Maureen McCormick, American actress
1959 - Pete Burns, British singer
1961 - Tawny Kitaen, American acresss
1961 - Clayton Rohner, American actor
1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
1964 - Adam Yauch, American musician
1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player
1968 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1975 - Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress
1975 - Ami Foster, American actress
1976 - Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Mark Mulder, baseball player
1979 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1981 - Carl Crawford, baseball player
1981 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1982 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
1982 - Jason Culina, Australian footballer
1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1985 - Salomon Kalou, Ivory Coast footballer



[edit]
Deaths
882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)
1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1743 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
1923 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b.1917)
1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)
1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)
1984 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925)
1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)
1992 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)
2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b. 1982)
2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod champion (b. 1954)
 
July 30

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in '47.

'Nuff said.
 
July 18th

Events
390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
1195 - Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
1536 - The authority of the Pope is declared void in England.
1830 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war on the French.
1861 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford prior to first battle of Bull Run (1st Battle of Manassas).
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island - The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Battery Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.
1872 - Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
1914 - The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, this gives definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1932 - The United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: The rebellion reaches peninsular Spain and conquers Galicia, west Castile, west Andalucia and Aragon.
1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland.
1940 - Democratic National Convention, Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office.
1942 - World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
1944 - World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
1965 - Zond 3 launched.
1966 - Gemini 10 launched.
1968 - Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1968 - Intel incorporated.
1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1969 - Apollo 11 makes preparations for landing on the Moon.
1976 - Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, age 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
1977 - Vietnam joins the United Nations.
1982 - 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
1984 - The first Culver's opens in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
1984 - McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1986 - A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan, prompting California to pass America's first anti-stalking law in 1990.
1992 - The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.
1992 - 'The Late Show (Australian TV series)', starring the D-Generation debuts on ABC.
1994 - In Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations killing 85 and injuring many more.
1994 - A court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights.
1995 - On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 - In an event very similar to the Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, an F5 tornado hit the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
1997 - 8000 low-caste Indians riot in Mumbai (Bombay) following a funeral for 10 children who had been killed by police.
1998 - A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea.
1999 - David Cone of the New York Yankees pitches the 16th perfect game in baseball history against the Expos at Yankee Stadium. Former Yankee Don Larsen, the only player to pitch a World Series perfect game was in attendance to honor Yogi Berra on Yogi Berra Day.
2001 - In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.
2003 - Kobe Bryant is charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year old woman.
2004 - Hit series Entourage premiers on HBO.

Births
1013 - Hermannus Contractus, learned monk (d. 1054)
1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1634 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
1670 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)
1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1848 - William Gilbert Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1862 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
1867 - Margaret Brown,The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Titanic survivor (d. 1932)
1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1881 - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945)
1890 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
1900 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
1902 - Jessamyn West, American writer (d. 1984)
1902 - Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - S. I. Hayakawa, American semanticist and politician (d. 1992)
1906 - Clifford Odets, American writer (d. 1963)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1911 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1914 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1916 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
1925 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
1927 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
1929 - Dick Button, American figure skater
1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1938 - Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
1939 - Brian Auger, British musician
1940 - James Brolin, American actor
1940 - Joe Torre, baseball player and manager
1941 - Martha Reeves, American singer
1942 - Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1947 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
1954 - Ricky Skaggs, American country/bluegrass musician
1957 - Nick Faldo, English golfer
1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
1961 - Elizabeth McGovern, American-born actress
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
1963 - Mike Greenwell, baseball player
1963 - Al Snow, American professional wrestler
1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 - Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down)
1978 - Ben Sheets, baseball player
1979 - Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and Miss World 2000
1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1999 - Nixzmary Brown, child abuse icon (murdered 2006)

Deaths
1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, French crusader
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
1665 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599)
1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet, killed in the Spanish Civil War (b. 1908)
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (b. 1870)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1953 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1963 - Jack Solomon, restauranteur, co-founder Gallagher's Steak House (b. 1896)
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1988 - Nico, German-born model and singer (b. 1938)
1989 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist, (b. 1896)
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2005 - William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
 
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